How Italy remade Willem de Kooning
At the age of 65, the artist went to Rome a painter and returned to the United States a sculptor. It wasn’t the first time the city had changed him
Who really pays for public exhibitions?
The Venice Biennale is a good time to pull back the curtain on the funding of major arts events, which can often be shrouded in mystery
The basic instincts of Benjamin Franklin
The founding father who was careful to cultivate his public image is played by gusto by Michael Douglas in a new TV biopic
Who really pays for public exhibitions?
The Venice Biennale is a good time to pull back the curtain on the funding of major arts events, which can often be shrouded in mystery
How Adriano Pedrosa is opening up the Venice Biennale
The director of the 2024 Biennale talks to Apollo about the challenges the event faces and why he is sanguine about the changing political tides
Beyond the Biennale – the shows to see around Venice this month
The rest of the city still has plenty to offer, from an exploration of the travels of Marco Polo to a celebration of Jean Cocteau’s genius
Space explorer – an interview with Kapwani Kiwanga
Despite the painstaking research that underpins the artist’s work, there’s nothing dry about its outcomes – as visitors to the Canadian Pavilion in Venice will discover
The unstable bodies of Gabriella Boyd
For the Scottish painter, the line between figures and their surroundings can be intriguingly blurry
How Compton Verney stays ahead of the flock
Now 20 years old, the country house museum in Warwickshire has developed a distinctive approach to collecting – and it’s paying off handsomely
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The Royal Academy reframes its past
The institution’s unravelling of its involvement with empire is very welcome, but has ‘Entangled Pasts’ bitten off more than one exhibition can chew?
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In the studio with… Ibrahim Mahama
When he’s not using stadiums to realise his visions, the artist welcomes all manner of visitors, from school kids to tuk-tuk drivers, in his studio-cum-gallery in northern Ghana
In the studio with… Tammy Nguyen
The American artist and academic gets up at 5.30am and finds inspiration in moths, dinosaurs and Dante when working in her barn in Connecticut
April 2024
Who’s afraid of immersive art?
Why everyone loves Keith Haring
Counting the cost of the Venice Biennale
The Dutch artists who were drawn to Rome
Plus: how to eat beans in the baroque style, an interview with Kapwani Kiwanga, the daring experiments of Yoko Ono, the restless spirit of Sonia Delaunay, and a monumental survey of British architecture between the wars
James Cameron’s titanic bid to save the oceans
Can four high-priced works of art help conserve marine life? The Canadian film-maker certainly thinks so
The week in art news – Marlborough Gallery to close after nearly 80 years
Plus: Endeavor, the owner of Frieze, goes private for $13bn; and Kim Conaty is the Whitney’s new chief curator
Acquisitions of the Month: March 2024
A Poussin Last Supper and a rare oil painting by Remedios Varo are among the most exciting works to have entered public collections over the last month
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The dreamlike visions of Julia Margaret Cameron and Francesca Woodman
Despite being separated by more than a century, the two photographers shared a distinctly hazy aesthetic
A gallerist with an eye for art and the desire to make a scene
Betty Sims-Hilditch explains how a background in set design and a commitment to emerging artists inform her new roaming gallery project, Artground
Who’s afraid of immersive art?
Do digital techniques to enliven familiar paintings help or hinder our understanding of the art at hand?
How Stanley Kubrick did it his way
A new life of the auteur lays bare the obsessiveness behind his films and what it cost everyone around him
For Howard Hodgkin, collecting was as important as painting
The artist amassed one of the finest private collections of Indian court paintings, an activity that preoccupied him as much as making art
Fifty years on, this biopic of Edvard Munch deserves a new lease of life
Peter Watkins’ 1974 film is no ordinary portrait of the artist – and feels more current than ever as the art-historical canon is up for debate
The doctor who was devoted to Van Gogh
The painter’s final months in the care of Dr Paul-Ferdinand Gachet, a physician as interested in art as he was in medicine, were an extraordinarily productive period
How the Bauhaus exiles shaped a new urban landscape
The westward spread of modernist design between the wars was shaped by the migrant experience
Phoenix Kingdoms: The Last Splendor of China’s Bronze Age
More than 150 masterpieces of ancient Chinese craftsmanship go on show at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco
Caspar David Friedrich: Infinite Landscapes
The father of German Romantic art gets a major survey to mark the 250th anniversary of his birth
The Last Caravaggio
This shadowy depiction of Saint Ursula, thought to be Caravaggio’s last work, demonstrates that the artist’s mastery never left him
Willem de Kooning and Italy
An exhibition in Venice suggests that the Abstract Expressionist’s visits to Rome changed his art for ever
Museums should do more to cater for autistic people
Immersive and interactive exhibitions can be uncomfortable for neurodivergent visitors, but if galleries made more of an effort, everyone would benefit